Principal Engineer-Messaging

The role

You will own the multi-year technical vision for messaging infrastructure that processes hundreds of millions of messages and manages terabytes of data. You will shape technical strategy, influence architectural decisions across multiple teams, and mentor Staff and Senior Engineers.

What you will do

• Own the multi-year technical vision for messaging infrastructure
• Drive architectural coherence across multiple teams
• Lead technical due diligence for major initiatives
• Identify and solve company-level technical problems that span organizational boundaries
• Develop comprehensive solutions with validation, rollback, and testing plans
• Forecast project costs in time, money, and opportunity cost
• Monitor the industry landscape and anticipate messaging and data infrastructure trends
• Shape company-wide standards for engineering excellence, observability, and reliability
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers across the fellowship
• Elevate architectural thinking through design reviews and documentation

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope
• Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes
• Ability to influence without authority and build consensus across organizational boundaries
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture
• Experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
• Strong background in scalable data stores including relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.)
• Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design
• Solid backend engineering foundation (Go preferred; Python, Java, or C# acceptable)

Nice to have

• Experience with messaging delivery systems, carrier/aggregator integrations, or telecommunications infrastructure
• Expertise in data platform architecture: streaming pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed analytics
• Background in compliance-heavy environments (healthcare, fintech)
• Experience shaping AI/ML infrastructure or integrating AI capabilities into production systems
• History of external technical leadership: open source contributions, conference speaking, or published technical writing
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Before you apply

• Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check

About the company

Weave is a company where 30,000+ healthcare practices communicate with patients across various channels.